Glancing glow
Blickender Schein , also bodily evidence ( mhd. Blickender schin, Latin evidentia ocularis) is a term from the older, medieval German legal language and describes the evidence of a fact or event perceived by the court or individual court members with their eyes. The glancing appearance played a special role in the hand-held deed when the offender caught in the act and his loot were brought to court.
From the 15th century on, the designation Augenschin (ougenschin; inspectio ocularis, probatio ad oculum) prevailed. In the inquisition process , the judge was obliged, for example in the case of manslaughter, to inspect the crime scene and the corpse to find evidence.
literature
- Heinrich Zoepfl: The old Bamberg law as the source of the Carolina . Karl Groos, 1839. Google Books
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Scheele: Blickender Schein Concise Dictionary on German Legal History , accessed on June 27, 2019
- ↑ Peter CA Schels: Schein, looking medieval lexicon. Small encyclopedia of the German Middle Ages, accessed on June 27, 2019